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Ironically, the British occupation gave Guadeloupe’s economy a big boost: between 20,000 and 30,000 more slaves were transported in and new cane-grinding windmills built, all of which spurred the sugar trade to unprecedented prosperity.
The smaller islands, French Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy, are administrative sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) of Guadeloupe.
Perhaps 2,000 years ago, Indians sometimes called “Saloides” from the Orinoco basin in South America began migrating up the Antilles chain, reaching Martinique and Guadeloupe before a.d. 200.
Guadeloupe and Martinique became full départements of France in 1946 — a source of great pride to many.
The traffic soared incredibly: by 1745 Martinique had 60,000 slaves and only 16,000 whites, while Guadeloupe had even more slaves and fewer whites.